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Can I install a 2nd digital gravity fed shower?
Plumbing  •  165 views  •  0 answers

Can I install a 2nd digital gravity fed shower or would I not have enough pressure or enough hot water

Boiler not igniting?
Plumbing  •  165 views  •  0 answers

Boiler will not fire up ( Potterton suprema 50L) red light flashes. However with suction on the tube between the fan assembly and the air pressure switch and it fires into life . Cleaned the little Venturi tube on the fan housing ( wasn’t that bad anyway) but with tube …

Clean up leak from waste pipe in sub floor
Plumbing  •  164 views  •  1 answer

Hi! So we’ve noticed a funky smell in the kitchen, had a good look and found our sink waste pipe was cracked. Crack is since fixed but we don’t know how long it had been like that for and there is now sludgy that stinks under the suspended floor. It’s …

TRV Valves & Automatic Bypass
Plumbing  •  164 views  •  0 answers

Hi Everyone I've recently bought some Tado smart radiator thermostats. I've checked my radiators and they're all TRV's (including towel radiator), expect one, which is manual, near the thermostat. I am not necessarily assuming this is a bypass radiator, as it doesn't have fixed valves with two lockshields that you …

Double check valve on hot water outlet?
Plumbing  •  164 views  •  0 answers

Can you install a double check valve on hot water outlet on a hot water cylinder

Comb boiler losing pressure - tried everything!
Plumbing  •  164 views  •  0 answers

Hi, This is a right head scratcher! Any ideas greatly appreciated. My central heating system is losing about half a bar of pressure a week. It's a tiny back to back house, 4 rads and a towel rail. Veissman wb1b 30kw. Plastic piping. So far I've: 1. Ripped up the …

Aga hot water issue
Plumbing  •  162 views  •  1 answer

The overflow from the header tank was leaking. The header tank supplies the hot water cylinder, which in turn is heated by an Aga flow and return. The header tank has one water feed in, one outlet to the bottom of the cylinder, an expansion pipe from the cylinder and …

Soil pipe join fall
Plumbing  •  162 views  •  0 answers

The entry to the soil pipe on the outside of my house is about 200mm away from the corner of my bathroom. I need the soil pipe to run as close to the wall as possible as the toilet is a few meters away inside the bathroom so I was …

Best integrated toilet/basin unit?
Plumbing  •  162 views  •  0 answers

Hi, i'm looking for integrated toilet/basin advice. We bought a Milan Polymarble Combined toilet/basin from Victorian plumbing without understanding that it's a sealed unit. A few months in, and the flush has stopped working. Our plumber hated installing the unit and won't do the work, and we've tried several other …

Crosswater Thermostatic Shower
Plumbing  •  162 views  •  0 answers

Have had 2 Crosswater showers recently installed (Kai 2 Lever with handset & Diverter) and Watersquare handset & diverter) My plumber doesn’t seem to have a clue how to set the temperature correctly and has left us with a setting that gives us only warm/hot water and no cold at …

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